Eye Care

IHE Eye Care is sponsored by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and manages the Eye Care Profiles and the Eye Care Technical Frameworks.

There are two committees:

• the Eye Care Planning Committee, the Eye Care Technical Committee

Timeline: 2009-2010 Development Cycle Milestones

The Timeline shows the main milestones of the development cycle, the Timeframe when they are typically expected to happen, and the actual date/time/location they have been Scheduled for this year. Specific meetings and their agendas and minutes are generally listed on the IHE Eye Care Planning Committee and IHE Eye Care Technical Committee pages.

Dates and times are U.S. Eastern Time (Chicago).

Timeframe	Activity	Scheduled	Location
2009
Nov	Submit Brief Profile Proposals to Planning Committee (PC)		Wiki
Dec	PC Selects "Short List" of Proposals		T-Con
Dec	PC Drafts Detailed Profile Proposals for "Short Listed" Proposals		Wiki
Jan	TC Completes technical review of Detailed Proposals		T-Con
Jan	PC makes Final Selection of Proposals for this year		T-Con
Jan	TC Profile development kickoff meeting
2010
Mar	TC Finalizes profile supplements for public comment
Mar	Publication of Public Comment Supplements (See Eye Care 2009-2010 Supplements)		www.ihe.net
Apr	Deadline for submission of public comments on profile supplements		www.ihe.net
Apr/May	TC reconciles public comments
May/Jun	Publication of CPs - released for Ballot		www.ihe.net
Jun	Publication of Trial Implementation Supplements		www.ihe.net
Jun	Publication of Final Text Technical Framework		www.ihe.net
2011
Oct	Test implementations at Connectathon (North America)		Chicago
Oct/Nov	Demonstrate implementations at Showcase (North America)

Roadmap

2006 - IHE Eye Care Year 1 - Focus is to initiate IHE Eye Care, building upon basic profiles of workflow, charge posting and evidence reports and begin introducing this to the vendor and user community.

2007 - IHE Eye Care Year 2 - Focus is on building upon the beginning efforts and expand participation of vendors, particularly acquisition modalities. One new profile was added, Eye Care Displayable Reports, to enhance the usability to users.

2008 - IHE Eye Care Year 3 - Focus is on expanding participation of vendors, particularly electronic health record systems, to build critical mass in IHE Eye Care and building up physician/user understanding of the needs for IHE/interoperability

2009 - IHE Eye Care Year 4 - Focus is on expanding participation of vendors and building upon the awareness/education of the physicians and by expanding usage of IHE Eye Care by extending the Framework to include a new actor, Legacy Acquisition Modality Importer, which allows physicians to use their existing devices, instead of having to purchase new devices.

2010 - IHE Eye Care Year 5 - Focus is on continuing to expand participation of vendors, both acquisition modality vendors, legacy acquisition modalities, and electronic health record systems to reach a critical mass. Work in future years will be to build in more Information Technology Infrastructure profiles into the Technical Framework.

Current Activity

IHE Eye Care has been working on the 2009 Eye Care Workflow Profile. The Final Text was published in January 31st and available here under Technical Frameworks. Correction Proposals are accepted by the Technical Committee for consideration.

The Technical Committee has also provided extensions: Legacy Acquisition Modality Importer Actor and Instructions for Performing a Procedure for Trial Implementation Version. Comments are accepted by the Technical Committee for consideration.

Demonstrations & Presentations

Date	Location	Event	Details
2009	San Francisco, CA	AAO 2009	IHE Eye Care Interoperability Showcase

Supporters and Endorsements

IHE Eye Care is supported or endorsed by the following organizations:

• American Academy of Ophthalmology

Also, it is endorsed by

• American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
• Macula Society

See Also

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